Berlin

® Felipe Russo
After spending my summer in Paris doing an internship i had to travel a bit. Being in Paris doesn't have the traveling fill to it anymore. So i packed and went to Berlin for four days.

® Felipe Russo
I saw some great work... By Check-point Charlie (one of the checkpoints between east and west Berlin..today a disneyland for tourists) and the Berlin Wall memorial the french photographer and street artist JR shows with his project face2face that there's a wall still up between Palestinian Territories and Israel. I just hope it was also effective, as a message, for the tourists that where getting there passports stamped for 2 euros ( yes you can buy a communist stamp for your passport).
I had great pleasure visiting the Helmut Newton Foundation a temple for photography. Its great to see that places like these exist. The show "Wanted" was on...showing photos from Newton himself, Ralph Gibson and Larry Clark. Was great to see Larry Clarks work, i real punch in the face, life as it is ( or as it was for him and his freinds)...they where showing two of his series...nothing less then Tusla and Teenage Lust. If you have a change please go (Clark is also showing Tusla at MEP in Paris).
Another gallery i visited, and really recommend, is the C/O Berlin. The C/O is not just a gallery space, but it also promotes lectures, study groups, grants and is a publishing house. They are showing until December Thomas Koerfers private collection, in a show called Stripped Bare. The collection includes, Araki, Nan Goldin, Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Boris Mikhailov, Hellen Van Meene and Phillipe Lorca di Corcia.
But was also a good surprise to see the work of young french photographer Marion Poussier. She won a grant from the O/C for new talent and she had already exhibited in Arles these year,by indication of Raymond Depardon.

Ill post some more tomorrow..